what are the specs? I'd like one if the specs are right for the money. I want a cheap laptop for trips and stuff. PM me. Also PM me the experts-exchange link I know 2 experts there that are awesome with symantec products!

Thanks again vanx - you're exactly right -almost all of our backups take up multiple tapes. According to what you said, I will Inventory and catalog everything before attempting a restore job. Thanks for that !

Our reader has a dirty read/write head so until our cleaning tapes come in - I am not doing anything with Backup Exec.

You are welcome. It would be nice to be able to restore data from just one tape in a set if you don't have others, but that's just not the way the backup process works.

My boneheaded intern managed to wipe out a 2TB drive which was to be put on tape backup on our new system - when I get back to the office and pull my foot out of his a** I'll give you some updates - you have been great man - I feel like I need to pay you for your time

remixed - I'd love to help but I dont want to sell these piece by piece - Im looking for a company to buy all of them at once - sorry

sw1tch - let me send you my intern and he can waste even more of your time !! He is going to be a Junior @ Texas A&M in Comp Sci and has to tell me at least 10x a day about how Microsoft is evil and he will change our billion dollar company over to all linux - I just say "shut up and go get my dry cleaning you idiot !" well - I do tell him to shut up

sw1tch - let me send you my intern and he can waste even more of your time !! He is going to be a Junior @ Texas A&M in Comp Sci and has to tell me at least 10x a day about how Microsoft is evil and he will change our billion dollar company over to all linux - I just say "shut up and go get my dry cleaning you idiot !" well - I do tell him to shut up

Haha classic! I spent 4 hours because my stupid Helpdesk deleted the schedules when doing a restore job and if you don't set them up in a particular way it will not eject the tape. Did I say I hated it. Yes I believe I did

My boneheaded intern managed to wipe out a 2TB drive which was to be put on tape backup on our new system - when I get back to the office and pull my foot out of his a** I'll give you some updates - you have been great man - I feel like I need to pay you for your time

No problem, happy to help. That said, all contributions are gratefully received Would be nice to know what company you're working for though (PM, if you can). Not so I can point my finger and laugh, just curious.

I have moved the Backup Exec 2010 & the old Quantum DLT tape loader over to a newer server which happens to be the server that is connected to our arcVault tape switcher.

I am wondering if its possible to "convert" all of our old DLT tapes over to LTO ?

Instead of having to restore all of the old DLT stuff (with missing tapes) to a HDD somewhere, then back that up to our LTO tape autoloader - can I just move/convert them on the fly ?

Thanks Again -

First things first -- what kind of DLT (SDLT I/II, S4, etc) and LTO media (2/3/4/5) do you mean? Also, how do you plan on doing this? Simply cloning one tape onto another could give you lots of wasted space on your LTO media as it generally has bigger capacity.

Yes, it is possible to "convert" your DLT tapes to LTO. There are even specialist firms that are in business of doing that.

If you wish to use Backup Exec to do this conversion, you would need to catalog data from all of those DLT tapes. Then, create a duplicate job for catalogued backup sets with LTO drive(s) as target.

please call up their support and tell them to shove their software up their ass so that I am not the only one.

tell them you are going with a backup that works most of the time (backup exec)....until you get some crap error that has a general answer like we are sorry your backup failed today, for some reason we can't backup this file perhaps tomorrow will be better for you.

I wish computer associates a firey death into a black hole while each and every tech is hung by their balls....bunch of tards running that place. I can only imagine breaks by the water cooler with everyone drooling and staring at each other, each with a case of parkinsons. fking retarded morons can't even draw a line much less do any sort of mathematics to make a program that runs right...I would love to drop a nuke (or several) on their door step taking out any and all bystanders that could or do work for that place....they all need death.

sw1tch - let me send you my intern and he can waste even more of your time !! He is going to be a Junior @ Texas A&M in Comp Sci and has to tell me at least 10x a day about how Microsoft is evil and he will change our billion dollar company over to all linux - I just say "shut up and go get my dry cleaning you idiot !" well - I do tell him to shut up

When he is about, oh, 40 or so he will realize Microsoft is money hungry not evil. Microsoft does make a good product, although sometimes they do release crap as do every corporation in any industry where there is significant change between models/products/years. Look at the big Toyota flop or any car manufacturer. If you don't load you pc up with crap/trials/pirated software it actually runs as expected. Many microsoft servers are up for months at a time and the only time they go down is due to updates. True *nix doesn't need to go down as frequently and just runs, but it isn't really a gui that stays running constantly now is it? Server 2008 has an option to run in core mode (no gui) but requires the admin to really know and understand the power shell, and I believe many things server are going to the powershell to be able to function....exchange is hybrid (needs ps to function, some things have been stripped from the gui, and can use gui to run certain admin functions..but everything can be done in the ps).

sw1tch - let me send you my intern and he can waste even more of your time !! He is going to be a Junior @ Texas A&M in Comp Sci and has to tell me at least 10x a day about how Microsoft is evil and he will change our billion dollar company over to all linux - I just say "shut up and go get my dry cleaning you idiot !" well - I do tell him to shut up

Oh god I hate those know-it-all douches.

You should tell him to leave and can only come back when he has a clue.

Oh, and all back up software is complete ****. It's amazing considering how important back ups are. Why the **** can't anyone make decent backup software?!?!?!

Oh, and all back up software is complete ****. It's amazing considering how important back ups are. Why the **** can't anyone make decent backup software?!?!?!

A cynical person would call all backup software a bunch of glorified copiers. Backups by themselves are not important. Restores, on the other hand, are crucial. From a pesky spreadsheet that some twit in finance/human resources has deleted to a sensitive document that legal are requesting because someone is suing and a huge fine will be imposed if information is not disclosed.

There is decent backup software out there, such as Backup Exec, Simpana, NetBackup etc. From my experience, at least with those 3, it's not the software's fault most of the time.

A cynical person would call all backup software a bunch of glorified copiers. Backups by themselves are not important. Restores, on the other hand, are crucial. From a pesky spreadsheet that some twit in finance/human resources has deleted to a sensitive document that legal are requesting because someone is suing and a huge fine will be imposed if information is not disclosed.

There is decent backup software out there, such as Backup Exec, Simpana, NetBackup etc. From my experience, at least with those 3, it's not the software's fault most of the time.

If it werent for the necessity of quality log files (and the ability to copy db objects), copies would do just fine.

Thanks for all your comments - sc302 - I sure hope you change your mind about computer associates and the nukes - I think their (old ?) HQ is about 20 miles from me - that whole ground zero thing would kinda suck -- now a tactical nuke ? oh god that would be great - a huge norton office is across the street - as well as McAfee I think - there is an area in Plano and a ton of corporate HQ are next to one another (EDS, Perot Systems (now Dell), JC Penney - we'll just wipe the slate clean and start over.

I setup BEX2010 to do my 1st complete backup to the LTO tape robot thingy (ArcVault12). It was scheduled to start @ 12:00 noon this past Saturday - I was too busy to go up to the office this weekend - so I have my fingers crossed all went as planned. The server it hopefullly backed up is one of, if not the main server...